..just as every Hollywood action star has a stunt double, all leading actors/ actresses, world leaders and most important people have look-likes. They do dangerous stunts, faraway shots, and generally are there to lighten the oppressive load laid on the overebudened star, because we are human we can't do it all alone. Public appearances, autographs, photo-shoots , song writing, studio recording, movies, let's not forget that people also get sick too....especially for the Beatles, where does such a group of people making music, movies, public appearances, find the time to create such a catalogue of music in such a short space of time?????..their first album was mostly cover tunes. It was all made possible beacuse of the governments help. Due to the sophistication of available prosthesis, make-up, plastic surgery, voice training, all at the governments expense, because the " British invasion" was a movement of the greatest import, done in conjunction with the co-operation of the US government. The Beatles were " Help-less" because they were not in control of their own scene, they had only the offer of fame and fortune and intrigue. You see, fans in a state of sonambulistic frenzy, could hardly tell what was going on beyond themseves and literaly nothing else, lost in rock n' roll.....theo Adorno designed rocknroll to give people a false sense of identity, allowing a lone person to feel as part of a much bigger group. Meanwhile the music seems to speak to us each individualy , about our deepest joys , sorrows, and fears. Like it was talking to us embracing us. Having never met the beatles or any famous persons, significantly adds to one's inability to recognize the differance between a person or their double. The first time we saw Paul McCartney was it the real Paul McCartney?? Rockn'roll music in general starting in the 1950's was individual singers looking to create a career for themselves, would audition and perform a newer version of a song that already existed.then would came album rock evolved from the single ( the hit parade) , which aims to continuosly recycle and replay songs in such a fashion as to impregnate the mind with an unforgetable theme. The message and melody stick in the minds of the voracious consumers appetites. It is naive to think this entertainment strategy would change all that much, considering, it is in truth a form psychological warfare being waged on the youth who at that point in their lives lack a concrete identity of their own. The youth whogreedily absorb and in turn take on as their own, the personalityof the music or band. This musical machine was diplayed in it's trial run in the 50's with Elvis and his "pelvis"(sex), screwing and grinding with your clothes on, had begun on the dance floor. Elvis of course had a double , tripple, quadruple,etc...
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